Fr Jim Norris was one Priest that helped discern the way to greater love, and it's true meaning to me. There are different ways of course, free will is part of God's design for the human race and we often ask why. Fr Kelly, said "because God wants human beings not mules". You have to read that with an Irish accent.
The monastic life and my experiences is something I will have to write about. Stability is my pet subject at the moment.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Mother Mary, I am all thine. Take
me and watch over me. Guide me to Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, that
I may be one with Him in you. Do not permit me to displease our Father
seriously. Grant that in your most chaste womb I may gradually come to the
fullness of Jesus Christ and so be born into Heaven, your second born son.

At all times, my good Mother, solve
my doubts and difficulties and make manifest to thy child the holy will of the
Father, at all times.

Show me also sweet Mother, my true
position in this life. My relations with God, how immense and good our Father
is; how small and sinful I am. Show me just the truth about myself. Grant that
I may never be separated from thee, my treasure!

I promise to renew this
consecration every feast day of my Queen, the throne of my heart and to honor
her especially on these days. Amen.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Remember “No man is a judge in his own case.” And from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale. (Shakespeare). Time is a flash between two eternities. Consistency, thou art a jewel. Whatever has an end is short. Our life fixes our eternity no second innings. St. Theresa said she would walk on live coals all the days of her life, if it would gain her a little more merit. Everything is more durable than the dust out of which mankind is made. We are painting a picture and one day we must lay down the brush and gaze on it for eternity.https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fr-Norris-mitigated-spiritual-exercises/371611976292777?ref=hl

Monday, August 19, 2013

“I encourage you to go out of yourselves and go to the peripheries, both geographical and existential, to proclaim Jesus and make known his message.” The Holy Father continued: “May the Holy Spirit give you strength and make you courageous, without fear and with bravery.”

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Synopsis: OT XX [C] Sunday (Aug 18) on Luke 12: 49-53 (L-13)Let us learn to appreciate the contemporary prophets in the Church: The Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles, writing about the role of prophecy in the modern church communities in his book Models of the Church, remarks: “Christianity is not healthy unless there is room in it for prophetic protest against abuses of authority.” God continues to send such prophets to every parish community and it is the duty of the bishop, pastor and parish council to listen to the well-intended and constructive criticisms of such Jeremiahs.